Americas

JUNE 12, 2005 Posted: June 30, 2005 Frontera ATTACKED Masked assailants attacked the offices of the daily Frontera in the city of Mérida, in the western state of Mérida, in apparent retaliation for a news report.

JULY 6, 2005 Posted: July 7, 2005 Judith Miller, The New York Times IMPRISONED U.S. District Court Judge Thomas F. Hogan ordered reporter Miller jailed immediately for refusing to reveal her confidential source to a grand jury investigating the leak of a CIA operative’s identity. He ordered her held on a contempt of court charge…

New York, June 6, 2005—The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply concerned about death threats made in recent weeks against a U.S. journalist, author, and activist, and her family. Asra Nomani and her mother, Sajida Nomani, received two threatening phone calls that they believe were made by the same man, Nomani told CPJ. Asra Nomani…

JUNE 3, 2005 Posted: June 24, 2005 José Carlos Forner, CaTV Robson Xavier, CaTV ATTACKED Forner and Xavier, who work for television station CaTV, were attacked by police officers at the end of an indoor soccer game in the city of São Miguel do Iguaçu, in southern Paraná state.

New York, May 27, 2005—The Kremlin has waged a brutally effective information war in Chechnya using repressive policies, restrictive rules, subtle censorship, and outright attacks on journalists, Alex Lupis reports in the new edition of Dangerous Assignments. The spring/summer edition of the magazine is now available from the Committee to Protect Journalists. Also in the…

New York, May 26, 2005—The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes a new ruling by the Honduran Supreme Court of Justice that strikes down the desacato, or contempt, provision in the country’s Penal Code. The Supreme Court’s Constitutional Chamber ruled on May 19 that Article 345 of the Penal Code was unconstitutional because it provided “special…

MAY 21, 2005 Posted: June 10, 2005 Francesca Caferri, Repubblica HARASSED, EXPELLED Caferri, an Italian journalist who traveled to Cuba on assignment for the Rome-based daily Reppublica to cover an unprecedented gathering of opposition activists, was detained in Havana by Cuban authorities and expelled.

MAY 20, 2005 Posted: May 25, 2005 Francesco Battistini, Corriere della Sera Seweryn Blumsztajn, Gazeta Wyborcza Jerzy Jurecki, Tygodnik Podhalanski Wojciech Rogacin, Newsweek HARASSED, EXPELLED

New York, May 20, 2005 – The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the detention and expulsion of several foreign journalists who traveled to Cuba to cover an unprecedented gathering today of opposition activists and international observers. Italian journalist Francesco Battistini, who arrived in Cuba last night on assignment for the Milan-based daily Corriere della Sera,…